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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.

An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.

If you find yourself stuck at any step of today's Hurdle, don't worry! We have you covered.

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Spectrum.

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GAMUT

Hurdle Word 2 hint

A solid building material.

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STONE

Hurdle Word 3 hint

To move sneakily.

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SLINK

Hurdle Word 4 hint

A kid.

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CHILD

Final Hurdle hint

To bet.

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WAGER

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Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for the latest Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable What is Connections Sports Edition?

The NYT's latest daily word game has launched in association with The Athletic, the New York Times property that provides the publication's sports coverage. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.

If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

Here's a hint for today's Connections Sports Edition categories

Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: Newbie athlete

• Green: Hockey teams north of America

• Blue: Share a college conference

• Purple: Ending of football teams

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Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Terms for a young athlete

• Green: Canadian hockey teams

• Blue: ACC teams

• Purple: Last four letters of NFL team names

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Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

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The solution to today's Connections Sports Edition #200 is...

What is the answer to Connections Sports Edition today

• Terms for a young athlete - FRESHMAN, PROSPECT, RECRUIT, ROOKIE

• Canadian hockey teams - CANUCKS, FLAMES, JETS, OILERS

• ACC teams - CARDINALS, HOKIES, HURRICANES, PANTHERS

• Last four letters of NFL team names - BOYS, CONS, IONS, OWNS

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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Yellowjackets fans and citizen detectives, you can finally put your yarn walls and elaborate theories away. After three seasons and several fake-outs, we finally know the identity of Pit Girl, the Yellowjacket whose death by literal pitfall ominously kicks off the entire show.

As revealed in the Season 3 finale, "Full Circle," our poor, unfortunate Pit Girl is none other than Mari (Alexa Barajas). The truth isn't that surprising. The writing's been on the wall for Mari since Season 1, given that her hair and build match that of Pit Girl. But Yellowjackets took its Mari foreshadowing to new heights in Season 3, which opened with Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) hunting Mari through the woods in a very intense game of Capture the Flag. Later, Mari fell in the pit Coach Ben (Steven Krueger) uncovered — the very same pit that would one day lead to her doom.

SEE ALSO: How 'Yellowjackets takes Shauna's rage to the next level in Season 3

Just as the finale's title emphasizes, Mari's death brings us full circle, not just to the beginning of Season 1 but to all the breadcrumbs planted at the start of Season 3. Plus, Shauna gets to enact the ultimate revenge fantasy as retribution for Mari's teen bitchiness towards her at the start of the season. (I'd say eating your bully is still way harsh.)

But the near-inevitable march to Mari's death isn't without its surprises. The same goes for the rest of "Full Circle," which exposes Lottie's (Simone Kessell) killer and takes a major leap forward towards the Yellowjackets' rescue. Let's break it down.

Mari is Yellowjackets' Pit Girl, but the hunt for her is more complicated than you might think. Alexa Barajas in "Yellowjackets." Credit: Kailey Schwerman / Paramount+ with Showtime

The Season 1 opening saw Mari running from the frenzied hoots and howls of her teammates, suggesting an all-encompassing fervor within the Yellowjackets. Yet "Full Circle" reveals that couldn't be farther from the truth. Instead, the team has splintered into factions. Shauna and Lottie (Courtney Eaton) embrace the hunt and the idea of sacrificing someone to the wilderness. Van (Liv Hewson) and Tai (Jasmin Savoy Brown) are reluctant yet ready to participate as long as their heads aren't on the chopping block.

Tai even convinces Van to rig the sacrificial card draw for researcher and outsider Hannah (Ashley Sutton), but Shauna shuts that down, seeing as Hannah seems to be one of her strongest allies. At least, Yellowjackets tells us she is, but we get so little time with Hannah post-joining the Yellowjackets that she may as well be a background character in the vein of Gen (Vanessa Prasad). Why introduce a full-grown adult (who's also a mother) into the mix if you're not going to explore her dynamic with the younger, more feral Yellowjackets? Opportunity, squandered.

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Elsewhere on the hunt, other splinter factions undertake tricky maneuvers of their own. Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) takes the chaos of the hunt as an opportunity to abscond with the satellite phone, which Van has been working to fix. She switches clothes with Hannah (who, again, is basically a non-entity) to hide her absence from Shauna. Meanwhile, Akilah (Nia Sondaya), Melissa (Jenna Burgess), and Gen attempt to distract the hunters from going after Mari, even going so far as to attack them. Melissa tries to take down Shauna but doesn't follow through. (How boring of her!) Akilah follows Lottie to the hallucination cave and seems prepared to brain her with a rock. Yellowjackets doesn't show the outcome of that particular showdown, but Lottie does pop back up unscathed, whereas Akilah doesn't appear to be present in the later feasting scenes. Did Lottie just murder her offscreen, or will we get more answers in a later season?

The Akilah and Lottie discussion does lead to a pretty big revelation: Akilah wanted a hunt, and so did Gen, Mari, and Melissa. She poisoned their animals to plant the idea in Lottie's mind, but the reasoning is flimsy. They wouldn't have wanted a hunt for meat purposes, as there was plenty of livestock left in the pen. But then why endanger each other's lives? To create a distraction to take down Shauna? Was she was meant to fall in the pit trap instead of Mari? This may just be another set of questions the show will address farther down the line, but the entire hunting sequence feels off — and not in a particularly interesting way.

Yellowjackets reveals that Callie killed Lottie. Sarah Desjardins in "Yellowjackets." Credit: Kailey Schwerman / Paramount+ with Showtime

"Full Circle" resolves another big Yellowjackets mystery. Who killed adult Lottie?

Initially, Misty (Christina Ricci) thought Shauna (Melanie Lynskey) was responsible due to DNA evidence. However, it turns out that said genetic material actually belonged to Shauna's daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins), since mothers and daughters share mitochondrial DNA.

When Misty confronts Callie, the truth spills out. She'd gone to visit Lottie in the city because Lottie had stolen the tape with Hannah's recording on it from Callie's drawer. But instead of giving Callie the tape back, Lottie invites her to the building's candle-filled basement. (Sidebar: How'd she set that up without getting caught?) There, she delivers a speech about the wilderness and how she sees it in Callie.

SEE ALSO: How 'Yellowjackets' Season 2 bucks the bratty teen trope with Callie's wild arc

"You are the child of that place," Lottie says. "It took our baby and gave us you."

That wildness certainly comes through when Callie straight-up shoves Lottie down the stairs to her death. While she seems remorseful afterwards, there's no denying the darkness in her eyes, just like the darkness she describes in Shauna's own gaze. Maybe she's even more like her mother than she thought.

(Another sidebar, but why does adult Lottie's post-death conversation with her younger self take place in a morgue instead of a plane like Natalie and Van's? Was the death plane overbooked? Is it just for people who were marked for death in the wilderness?)

So, who was messing with Shauna all season long? Melanie Lynskey in "Yellowjackets." Credit: Kailey Schwerman / Paramount+ with Showtime

Now we know who killed Lottie, but another Season 3 mystery remains standing: Who was screwing with Shauna all season long?

Yellowjackets offers explanations for the brakes incident (they were just old) and the fridge lock-in (that was Misty messing with her). It even tries to justify the phone playing "Queen of Hearts" in the bathroom by saying people lose their phones all the time. This particular phone just so happened to be playing a song tied to the Yellowjackets' trauma.

SEE ALSO: 'Yellowjackets' Season 3, episode 1: Who brought that *very* convenient architecture book?

None of these explanations feel particularly satisfying — especially not the phone one! Yes, they establish Shauna's paranoia, which we also saw at play during the hunt, but the result is a letdown. Maybe Shauna and Yellowjackets' feverishly theorizing fans are in the same boat, drawing connections that aren't there. I just wish the actual explanation was more interesting than "coincidences happen sometimes."

With this focus on coincidence, Yellowjackets has moved any suspicion off adult Melissa (a criminally underused Hilary Swank). Shauna even finds the conciliatory note that Melissa claimed came with the tape. (She then shoves it down the garbage disposal, of course.) That's all well and good, apart from one big thing: Melissa murdered Van, so there's way more going on with her. Too bad Yellowjackets isn't interested in showing it. Adult Melissa ends the season the way she started: a non-entity whose backward baseball cap is her sole character trait.

Yellowjackets plays with memory in its Season 3 finale. Samantha Hanratty in "Yellowjackets." Credit: Paul Sarkis / Showtime

Yellowjackets Season 3 closes out with some big developments. Natalie uses the satellite phone to make contact with the outside world, meaning rescue is on its way. In the present, it's everyone against Shauna. Jeff (Warren Kole) and Callie leave her, and Misty and Tai ally themselves so she won't be the last Yellowjacket standing. As Tai points out, and as we've seen this entire season, Shauna fully gave into the wilderness and thrived on it during some of the Yellowjackets' darkest times. She also led the ridiculous effort not to escape the woods (although Tai wasn't blameless there either).

Shauna, though, has a different view of what happened in the woods. In the season's final scene, she re-enters journal mode and muses on whether she and the other survivors repressed memories of the wilderness because they were traumatizing, or because they hid a darker secret about who the Yellowjackets truly were.

"I think we can't, or won't, remember it clearly because we recognize, deep down, that we were having so much fun. That's the terrible truth we left out there buried, along with the people we called our friends," Shauna writes. "Except it's all coming back to me now. The danger. The thrill. The person I was back then. Not a wife, or a mother. I was a warrior. I was a fucking queen. I let all of it slip away from me. It's time to start taking it back."

Looks like adult Shauna will be embracing the Antler Queen status she enjoyed so much during the feast of Mari. But not everyone in the past seems to be having as much fun as Shauna says. The feast sequence brings back the images of furious chomping from Yellowjackets' very first episode, but mixes it in with more complicated images, like a tearful Gen tucking into her good friend. In the light of the next day, some Yellowjackets look unhappy and resigned beneath their homemade masks. What is the "true" memory of the wilderness, then? The rose-colored idea that they were all having fun, or the brutal struggle for survival? Or is it some warped combination of both?

Yellowjackets Season 3 leaves us with one last callback to the Pit Girl sequence from Season 1, episode 1. That series of foreboding flashbacks ended with Misty removing her furry mask, putting her glasses on, and smiling directly into camera, a sign that she'd given herself totally over to the thrill of the feast. But Season 3 puts that moment in a different context. After Shauna discovers Natalie is missing, Misty pulls off her mask, puts her glasses on, and smiles that same smile into camera. This time, it's a sign that her satellite phone plot with Van and Natalie has worked.

Which of these smiles is the "true" smile, then? Or did Misty just pull the same enigmatic smile move twice in one day? (With her flair for the dramatic, I wouldn't put it past her.) Still, the re-use of the same smile (against different backdrops) represents the two different goals for the remaining Yellowjackets. Misty's Season 1 smile signals a love of the wilderness and the hunt. Her Season 3 smile gestures to hope for escape, as well as the thrill of one-upping Shauna. These polar opposite ideas signify the two Yellowjackets factions remaining at the end of Season 3. And while we know rescue is coming, how will Natalie's move shake things up with Shauna in Season 4?

Yellowjackets Season 3 is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime.

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The weather may be getting warmer, but that doesn't mean you have to spend all of your time outside. If you've been on the hunt for a new TV to catch the brand new shows and films hitting streaming services soon, there are plenty of options on sale right now that are worth a look. In particular, if you want something that can double as a display for artwork when you're not using it for a movie night, Samsung's 65-inch The Frame TV is currently enjoying a nice discount at Best Buy.

The 65-inch Samsung LS03D The Frame QLED 4K TV has been marked down $500 at the retailer, dropping its price from $1,999.99 to $1,499.99. As a bonus, your purchase also comes with a one-month membership for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which is great news for gamers looking to test out the massive Game Pass library on a brand new TV.

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And the Samsung The Frame TV has the features to make it worth it, too. Boasting a QLED display with 4K resolution, images on the screen will look crisp and vibrant. It even has an anti-reflective matte display that won't let any annoying light block out what you're watching, which is especially helpful when the art takes over. This is what The Frame is best known for, allowing you to transform your TV into an art display. You can even show off pieces from New York's Museum of Modern Art on it, including work from Vincent van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Frida Kahlo.

If you've been eyeing up a TV upgrade, this deal on the 65-inch Samsung LS03D The Frame QLED 4K TV is worth adding to your virtual shopping cart before it's gone for good.

This TV just scratches the surface of what's available right now, though. At the moment you can also score a discount on the 43-inch Fire TV at Amazon and the new 2025 TCL QM6K Mini LED TV is on sale right now at Best Buy.

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TL;DR: Watch the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix for free on ServusTV. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The 2025 F1 season continues to deliver entertaining racing with a number of drivers in the running to win each round. Sure, McLaren look very strong, but it's what we've been asking for over the last few seasons of predictable finishes. This season looks much more open, and we're expecting big things from Sakhir.

If you're interested in watching the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix for free from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

When is the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix?

The 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix takes place over 57 laps of the 5,412-kilometer Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir. The full schedule can be found here:

• Practice — 2:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. AST on April 11

• Practice 2 — 6 to 7 p.m. AST on April 11

• Practice 3 — 3:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. AST on April 12

• Qualifying — 7 to 8 p.m. AST on April 12

• Race — 6 p.m. AST on April 13

The good news for fans is that it's possible to live stream the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix without spending anything.

How to watch the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix for free

The 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix is available to live stream for free on ServusTV.

ServusTV is geo-restricted to Austria, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Austria, meaning you can access free live streams of F1 from anywhere in the world.

Unblock ServusTV from anywhere in the world by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in Austria

4. Connect to ServusTV

5. Watch the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix from anywhere in the world

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but leading services do tend to offer free trials or money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch F1 live streams without actually spending anything. This is clearly not a long-term solution, but it does mean you can stream the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming sites from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming F1 live is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for F1?

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If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.

Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

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By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferrined pace.

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The words are games

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words are played on TV.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is Gameshows.

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• Jeopardy

• Pyramid

• Lingo

• Password

• Catchphrase

• Gameshows

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Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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The NYT's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.

If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

SEE ALSO: NYT's The Mini crossword answers for April 11 Here's a hint for today's Connections categories

Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: Ways to get nutrients

• Green: Seen in popular department stores

• Blue: The night sky

• Purple: They share the first word in common sayings

Featured Video For You Connections: How to play and how to win Here are today's Connections categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Sources of vitamins

• Green: Places used in retail suffixes

• Blue: Places to find stars

• Purple: Words after "Go"

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Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

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The solution to today's Connections #670 is...

What is the answer to Connections today

• Sources of vitamins: CITRUS, LEAFY GREENS, SUNSHINE, SUPPLEMENTS

• Places used in retail suffixes: CITY, LAND, TOWN, WORLD

• Places to find stars: AMERICAN FLAG, GALAXY, RED CARPET, UBER RATING

• Words after "Go": ALL OUT, BETWEEN, KART, STEADY

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

SEE ALSO: NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for April 11

Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today's Strands.

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Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Connections.

Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.

If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO: NYT Connections today: Hints and answers for April 11 Where did Wordle come from?

Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once. 

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

What's the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles was originally available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it, but it was later taken down, with the website's creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times. However, the New York Times then rolled out its own Wordle Archive, available only to NYT Games subscribers.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn't any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle's Hard Mode if you're after more of a challenge, though.

SEE ALSO: NYT's The Mini crossword answers for April 11, 2025 Here's a subtle hint for today's Wordle answer:

Shot from a bow.

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

The letter R appears twice.

Today's Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with...

Today's Wordle starts with the letter A.

SEE ALSO: Wordle-obsessed? These are the best word games to play IRL. The Wordle answer today is...

Get your last guesses in now, because it's your final chance to solve today's Wordle before we reveal the solution.

Drumroll please!

The solution to today's Wordle is...

ARROW.

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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This summer, The Sphere in Las Vegas is going to debut a new experience: The Wizard of Oz at Sphere. And it's doing so with the help of Google and AI.

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“The power of generative AI, combined with Google’s infrastructure and expertise, is helping us to achieve something extraordinary,” said Sphere Entertainment Executive Chairman and CEO Jim Dolan in a statement provided to Mashable. “We needed a partner who could push boundaries alongside our teams at Sphere Studios and Magnopus, and Google was the only company equipped to meet the challenge on the world’s highest resolution LED screen.”

Regardless of whether you've been to Vegas, you're likely familiar with The Sphere. It's constantly going viral with its 580,000 square feet of LED displays wrapped around the venue. The inside of the one-of-a-kind venue, which seats nearly 17,600 people, also features wrap-around LED screens with an eye-popping 16K resolution.

The Sphere has previously shown films made specifically for the venue. However, this year, it will show an existing movie for the first time, the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. As the Wall Street Journal reports, doing so isn't such a simple task; it's actually quite the process.

“Very, very, very big and very, very difficult,” the Wall Street Journal reported Google's director for AI foundation research Steven Hickson as saying. “There are scenes where the scarecrow’s nose is like 10 pixels.”

Why is that a problem? The Sphere's indoor display has more than 170 million pixels. 

To reformat The Wizard of Oz for the world's biggest screen, The Sphere brought in the Google Deepmind team to help create an all-new experience with AI.

Generative AI remains controversial among cinephiles

The obvious use of AI here is to upscale the picture, which Google did. AI upscaling enhances an image's resolution by not just resizing the image to make it larger, but also by filling in any missing details from the original image. This helps with the resolution issue. While AI upscaling is probably the least controversial use of artificial intelligence in art or filmmaking, it can also produce some disastrous results. Take, for example, this AI upscaling screenshot taken from an episode of I Love Lucy on Blu-Ray (click the image below to see what we mean).

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With Google's AI team working on this big project, alongside input from The Wizard of Oz rights-holder Warner Bros. Discovery, it's unlikely that we will see any AI upscaling issues like this. However, the Wall Street Journal report also includes a small before-and-after sample of Google's AI work on The Wizard of Oz for The Sphere, and minor glitches such as AI artifacts can be clearly seen.

However, the Sphere experience also takes things much further than video upscaling.

As the Journal reports, Google used generative AI models from its Gemini family, including Veo 2 and Imagen 3, to reimagine entire shots with extended backgrounds and to include characters missing from view. That means audiences will see beyond what the cameras originally caught in frame. Google's AI technology will generate these extensions based on what it believes could be there, taking into account the entirety of the full-length film.

Again, this goes beyond enhancing an image to show an artist's work on a larger screen. Filmmakers shoot and frame shots in specific ways for artistic purposes, and generative AI could compromise the original vision.

Earlier this month, a similar generative AI recreation went viral on social media for all the wrong reasons. A user on X uploaded a video of AI recreations of shots from filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. For example, in one scene, generative AI recreated a still shot so that the camera moved 360 degrees around the actor. The post received over 4,000 likes.

However, another X user criticized the use of AI to recreate Tarkovsky's vision.

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"If the camera was supposed to move, then Tarkovsky would have had the camera move," said user The Kino Corner. 

The critique received more than 305,000 likes.

Generative AI is still a very controversial subject in the film industry and the art community as a whole. Mashable has previously reported on the backlash against the use of AI in movies like The Brutalist and Late Night with the Devil.

However, it does seem like The Wizard of Oz at Sphere is unlikely to cause too much controversy, as it's being created for a very specific event that can only be experienced at one venue in Las Vegas.

With that said, the success of The Wizard of Oz at Sphere could help mainstream the use of AI in filmmaking and lead to wider adoption in the industry. Expect there to be a lot of eyes on Oz at The Sphere, even if they aren't physically there to experience it. 

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere opens on August 28, 2025.

After 17 years of delays, the Department of Homeland Security is set to finally require REAL IDs for Americans boarding domestic flights.

Starting on Wednesday, May 7, U.S. travelers must be REAL ID compliant to board domestic flights (and access military bases and certain federal facilities), according to DHS.

In other words, a standard driver's license or state ID without the REAL ID logo, typically on the top right of the license, will no longer be acceptable identification for Americans flying domestically.

Can I board a domestic flight without a REAL ID?

That remains to be seen. DHS and the Transportation Safety Administration, an agency of DHS, have suggested they may let some people without REAL IDs onto planes — after a significant wait.

A recent press release from DHS says "travelers who do not have a REAL ID-compliant state-issued credential or another acceptable form of ID can expect delays when they arrive at the TSA security checkpoint. The length of the delay will be determined by the number of other travelers who do not have a REAL ID-compliant credential, or another form of identification accepted by TSA for identity verification."

What other forms of ID will get me on a domestic flight?

If you can't get a REAL ID before May 7, bring any other acceptable identification for flying domestically, such as an active passport, passport card, or permanent resident card. The full list of the TSA's acceptable identification is here.

How do I get a REAL ID?

Every state has different rules on how you turn their state ID or driver's license a federally-compliant REAL ID. California, for example, asks travelers to fill out an online application, upload necessary documents (like passports and birth certificates for personal identification and utility bills to prove California residency), provide a social security number, then go to a Department of Motor Vehicles office — with the hard copies of the documents you uploaded — before the REAL ID is issued.

And yes, it's often kind of a pain.

What is the purpose of REAL IDs?

The REAL ID Act was passed in 2005 as a recommendation of the 9/11 commission; the legislation was one of many security responses enacted after the terrorist attacks of 2001. The REAL ID Act established tighter security standards for state-issued identification, and prohibited the TSA from accepting ID that did not meet those standards.

"REAL ID is intended to improve the reliability and accuracy of driver licenses and identification cards while inhibiting the ability of terrorists and others to evade detection by using fraudulent identification," according to the TSA.

The first deadline for REAL ID compliance from travelers was originally 2008, but extensions were repeatedly announced. Finally, May 2025 appears to be REAL ID's actual arrival on the airport scene.

TL;DR: On April 10, The Last of Us Complete hit the PlayStation 5, which includes PS5-enhanced versions of both games in the iconic series. You can buy the digital version starting today, or you can preorder the physical Collector's Edition, which will be released on July 10.

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The Last of Us Season 2 premieres on April 13, and what better way to get excited than a surprise release from the game's developer in The Last of Us Complete? It was only a matter of time before Naughty Dog dropped a PS5-enhanced bundle for both games in the series, and that's exactly what Complete is. From what we can tell, this bundle is the remake version of The Last of Us Part I packaged with The Last of Us Part II Remastered, so if you already own both, you can safely skip this one. If you're a TLOU newcomer, though, this is the best way to play both titles — snag the digital edition for $99.99.

Even if you own the games already, you may not want to skip the Last of Us Complete Collector's Edition that PlayStation also announced, which you can preorder now ahead of its July 10 release date. The physical Collector's Edition comes in a newly designed box with brand-new cover art, as well as a steelbook case for the disks. You'll also get a collection of lithographs from various artists featuring characters and moments from the games. It's not a lot of stuff for a Collector's Edition, but at only $10 more than the digital version, it's not a bad deal.

It may be hard to beat both games ahead of the new season's April 13 premiere date, but hey, why not try? Enjoy the journey, and we'll see you on the other side of Season 2.

OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT's existing ability to remember more information about you.

On Thursday, the AI company announced via X that "ChatGPT can now reference all of your past chats to provide more personalized responses." There was already a memory setting that, when toggled on, enabled ChatGPT to remember saved memories and reference them in conversations. But now ChatGPT can remember even more. "In addition to the saved memories that were there before, it can now reference your past chats to deliver responses that feel noticeably more relevant and useful," OpenAI explained in the X thread.

So, even if users haven't explicitly asked ChatGPT to remember information, it can now "reference past conversations automatically."

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teased the announcement this morning, saying on X, "a few times a year [I] wake up early and can't fall back asleep because we are launching a new feature [I]'ve been so excited about for so long. [T]oday is one of those days!" This tease naturally had AI enthusiasts in a tizzy, anticipating big ChatGPT news about o3, o4-mini, or something equally significant. But no, Altman was just really excited about adding more memory to ChatGPT.

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In February, Google rolled out a feature for Gemini that can similarly recall and reference past conversations. And with Google hosting the Google Cloud Next cloud computing conference this week, a steady drip of Gemini AI news has been released.

If the idea of ChatGPT referencing even more personal information from past conversations is off-putting, OpenAI also announced two new chat settings to control this feature. Users can already turn off "Reference saved memories," which means disabling references to "key facts about, like, your name or preferences," according to an OpenAI spokesperson.

Turning off "Reference chat history" disables ChatGPT's ability to "draw context from past conversations to adapt to your tone, goals, interests, or other recurring topics," the spokesperson explained. The chat history data relating to this setting is not explicitly "stored or shown in settings the way saved memories are," the spokesperson added.

This means it won’t reference past conversations to personalize future chats, but your chats are still stored in your chat history. To go completely anonymous, there’s a Temporary Chat feature — a kind of incognito mode where conversations aren’t stored in chat history and don’t contribute to what ChatGPT remembers about you.

ChatGPT's improved memory is available to ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Pro users starting today, with availability for Team, Enterprise, and Edu subscriptions coming in a few weeks. The memory feature is not available in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein.

Last week, Nintendo showed off the Switch 2. I even got to play it. However, that's where the good news ends.

Barely 48 hours after the big Nintendo Direct livestream, Nintendo put a pause on pre-orders in the United States due to President Donald Trump's wide-ranging tariffs, which were put in place just hours after the Direct. Canada eventually got the same treatment, too.

When the news first broke, Nintendo released a statement that read, "Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged."

We still don't know when pre-orders will go live in the U.S. and Canada, nor do we know if the announced $449.99 launch price will remain in place. As Nintendo fans try to make sense of it all, here's everything we know so far about the Nintendo Switch 2 tariff situation. We'll continue to update this guide as we learn more.

Keep checking Mashable for our latest tariff news and explainers, from higher laptop prices to reports of iPhone 16 panic buying.

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Since Nintendo isn't currently taking pre-orders for the Switch 2 in the U.S. or Canada, Nintendo fans might be worried that the launch of the console itself is in jeopardy. According to Nintendo, that is definitely not the case. So far, Nintendo has been adamant that the Switch 2's listed launch date of June 5 is still a go, even if you can't lock down a purchase just yet.

To get around the delayed pre-order, American users on X shared screenshots and reports of their failed attempts to circumvent tariffs by ordering the Switch 2 from the Amazon UK store. "Amazon UK" even briefly trended on X.

Of course, the chaotic rollout of the tariffs still leaves a lot of unknowns. On Wednesday, April 9, Trump announced a 90-day pause on most reciprocal tariffs, with the exception of those against China, which now sit well above 100 percent. June 5 is within that 90-day window, and Bloomberg also reported on Wednesday that Nintendo is going to stock up on Switch 2 units produced in Vietnam (rather than China) for the U.S. market in particular. According to Bloomberg, Nintendo should be able to build a substantial stockpile from Vietnam in time for launch. (The tariffs on Vietnam are only 10 percent, as opposed to the 46 percent promised by Trump last week).

For now, it seems like Nintendo will make the June 5 launch date.

Nintendo Switch 2 launch: Will it actually cost $450? A Switch 2 that wasn't impacted by tariffs. Credit: Alex Perry / Mashable

While Nintendo takes its time to "assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions," gamers are also wondering how much the new console will cost. The listed price of $450 already raised plenty of eyebrows before the tariffs were implemented. The Switch 2 is already $150 more expensive than the original Switch, which launched in 2017, though inflation has been a big problem in the years since. According to The Verge, the existing Switch 2 price did not factor in potential tariffs.

Still, we're optimistic the retail price will remain the same for the time being.

Michael Futter, co-founder of games industry consultancy F-Squared, told Mashable he expects the Switch 2 to maintain its $450 launch price in the U.S., given the 90-day pause. Bernstein analyst Robin Zhu said the same to Bloomberg, suggesting Nintendo could just eat the 10 percent tariff rate. However, research firm DFC Intelligence suggested in a note this week that the hardware price could rise to as high as $540 over the next two years.

"We are going to see prices rise on everything, including 'Made in the USA' goods that rely on raw materials produced overseas," Futter said in an email.

Nintendo Switch 2 launch: When can I pre-order one?

The final big question: When will Nintendo re-open pre-orders in the U.S. and Canada?

According to Futter, Nintendo isn't going to fast-track this part of the process.

"I think Nintendo is going to wait as long as it possibly can. The volatility around tariffs and other major global economic fluctuations has put anyone and everyone launching a new luxury product in a serious bind," Futter said. "Nintendo won't likely announce a new price or timing around pre-orders until it has a high level of confidence that things won't suddenly shift again."

This was supposed to be a season of major hype for Nintendo, as fans have been waiting on a new Switch console for years. Hopefully, Mario Kart World will actually be in our hands on June 5.

FROM $899.99: Shop Samsung's latest art TVs. Explore The Frame Pro Neo QLED TV starting at $2,199.99 or The Frame QLED TV from $899.99.

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Samsung is the innovator of art TVs. The Frame lineup combines the sleek aesthetics of a framed piece of art with the exceptional technology of Samsung's TVs. This year, Samsung debuted two new The Frame models, offering the most powerful processing yet to support AI features.

At CES 2025, we got a preview of Samsung's The Frame Pro and what takes it a step above the standard The Frame. But now that the 2025 models have arrived, here's everything to know about The Frame Pro and 2025 The Frame.

What to know about Samsung's The Frame Pro Neo QLED TV The Frame Pro features Samsung's Vision AI and Artful Color Validation from Pantone. Credit: Samsung

New tech releases usually mean one thing these days: AI. Samsung's The Frame Pro is no different, delivering Samsung's Vision AI to the art TV lineup. But that's just one of the many features of Samsung's new TV.

What sets The Frame Pro TV apart from the rest of The Frame collection are two major differences. The Frame Pro is a Neo QLED TV, aka a fancy way of saying its powered by mini LEDs. In her coverage of the Pro's CES launch, Mashable's Leah Stodart explained what "Neo QLED" actually means: "Samsung's term of endearment for mini LED, which offer more precise lighting due to their ability to be individually controlled, and the fact that there are more of them (compared to larger LED bulbs)." TL;DR: These tiny bulbs provide a wider array of colors for deeper blacks and more vibrant hues.

The Frame Pro takes its aesthetics to a new level with its exclusive compatibility with the Wireless One Connect Box. The box offers wireless transmission to your TV to truly keep wires and cords out of frame, maintaining the illusion that The Frame is just a beautiful work of art.

Designed with Pantone's Artful Color Validation, The Frame Pro brings accurate displays in both TV and art mode. Plus, the anti-reflection with matte display minimizes glare whether you're admiring a work of art from the MoMA or bingeing The White Lotus. The Frame Pro is powered by the NQ4 AI Gen3 Processor and features a 144Hz refresh rate.

The Frame Pro comes in 65-, 75-, and 85-inch models and starts at $2,199.99.

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While they might not have Neo QLEDs or wireless transmission, the standard The Frame models remain great. Like The Frame Pro, the new 2025 Frame TVs deliver Artful Color Validation by Pantone, anti-reflection with a matte display, a motion and brightness sensor, and Samsung's Vision AI, which allows for in-entertainment features like click-to-search or live translate.

Plus, at the heart of the new Frame TV is the NQ4 AI Gen3 Processor and 144Hz refresh rate, which can also be found in The Frame Pro.

Unfortunately, the 2025 model isn't compatible with the Wireless One Connect Box like the Pro. However, it does ship with the standard One Connect Box, which connects all your inputs with a single cable.

The 2025 Frame TV comes in 43-, 50-, 55-, and 65-inch models and starts at $899.99.

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If you have a teen in your life, this might not come as a shock. A new survey from the investment bank Piper Sandler Companies shows that teens really do prefer iPhones — at least, that's the device they're using.

The majority of teens — a whopping 88 percent — own an iPhone. This is backed by data from MIT's App Inventor, which showed that while Android systems are the most popular choice of smartphone globally, young people — particularly members of Gen Z and millennials — are more likely to be iPhone users.

What's more, a quarter of the teens surveyed by Piper Sandler Companies say they're planning to upgrade to an iPhone 17 when Apple launches its new lineup of mobile devices this fall. There are good reasons a teenager might want a new iPhone, beyond the perpetual drive to own the newest, hottest gadget. Rumors have it that the iPhone 17 will have a nicer camera, be thinner, have a 120Hz display, and come with Dynamic Island support.

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According to analyst Jeff Pu, the new phone will also have a 24-megapixel front camera — a significant increase from the iPhone 16's 12-megapixel front camera.

Keep in mind, these are all rumors, but a good camera might be a pretty big deciding factor for the 87 percent and 79 percent of teens who, respectfully, use Instagram and TikTok at least monthly, according to the survey. Snapchat is the third most-used social media app among teens at 72 percent, and Netflix is the number one choice for daily video consumption.

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To no one's surprise, there have been a lot of AI-related announcements at the Google Cloud Next event. Even less surprising: Google's annual cloud computing conference has focused on new versions of its flagship Gemini model and advances in AI agents.

So, for those following the whiplash competition between AI heavy hitters like Google and OpenAI, let's unpack the latest Gemini updates.

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On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini 2.5 Flash, a "workhorse" that has been adapted from its most advanced Gemini 2.5 Pro model. Gemini 2.5 Flash has the same build as 2.5 Pro but has been optimized to be faster and cheaper to run. The model's speed and cost-efficiency are possible because of its ability to adjust or "budget" its processing power based on the desired task. This concept, known as "test-time compute," is the emerging technique that reportedly made DeepSeek's R1 model so cheap to train.

Gemini 2.5 Flash isn't available just yet, but it's coming soon to Vertex AI, AI Studio, and the standalone Gemini app. On a related note, Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available in public preview on Vertex AI and the Gemini app. This is the model that has recently topped the leaderboards in the Chatbot Arena.

Google is also bringing these models to Google Workspace for new productivity-related AI features. That includes the ability to create audio versions of Google Docs, automated data analysis in Google Sheets, and something called Google Workspace Flows, a way of automating manual workflows like managing customer service requests across Workspace apps.

Agentic AI, a more advanced form of AI that reasons across multiple steps, is the main driver of the new Google Workspace features. But it's a challenge for all models to access the requisite data to perform tasks. Yesterday, Google announced that it's adopting the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard developed by Anthropic that enables "secure, two-way connections between [developers'] data sources and AI-powered tools," as Anthropic explained.

"Developers can either expose their data through MCP servers or build AI applications (MCP clients) that connect to these servers," read a 2024 Anthropic announcement describing how it works. Now, according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Google is adopting MCP for its Gemini models.

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This will effectively allow Gemini models to quickly access the data they need, producing more reliable responses. Notably, OpenAI has also adopted MCP.

And that was just the first day of Google Cloud Next. Day two will likely bring even more announcements, so stay tuned.